Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Art and Literature ]
… how much sociability practices had changed. The men’s shimmering habits had given way to black redingotes and the dinner parties she remembered had practically disappeared. Following English proprieties, the women were segregated from … England. One of her principal criticisms concerned the differences between male and female evening activities: ‘After dinner, we gathered in a beautiful chamber. The women would sit at one end, silently toiling away at their embroideries …
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